The film's 50-year-old star, director and co-writer, who's been globe-trotting with costar Owen Wilson promoting the high-fashion comedy, whipped out a 28-foot, 1-inch selfie stick at the film's blue-carpet premiere, with officials from Guinness there to corroborate the record-breaking moment.

The Blue Steel expert pointed the stick high above the blue carpet to successfully snap a portrait for the record books, capturing costars Wilson, Penelope Cruz, Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell, co-writer Justin Theroux, fashion designer Valentino Garavani and numerous others looking up from below.

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Ben Stiller, right, with the certificate for the record-breaking selfie stick.

Ben Stiller, right, with the certificate for the record-breaking selfie stick.

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Stiller is reprising his role as clueless male model Derek Zoolander, who in the film has a penchant for selfie sticks, and Wilson returns as his fellow model and sidekick Hansel as they attempt to put an end to a plot to assassinate the world's most beautiful people. Ferrell also returns as the notorious Mugatu.